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Apr 11, 2013

Those
of us who are old enough to remember successful conservative leaders like
Reagan, Churchill, and Menzies, are aware that while they may have been
unpopular on the left, the left had the maturity and adulthood to act
with the respect and courtesy they themselves would feel entitled to.

The
degree of vitriol heaped on Margaret Thatcher since her death has come as a
surprise to many people.While
always held in disdain by the neurotic left, none of their antics while she was
living has matched the absolute orgy of deranged celebratory temper tantrums
that have occurred in the last few days.

Some
of these behaviors are the result of the left moving away from its traditional ‘working
class’ roots toward its current domination by academics, lawyers, the
professional political class, union officials and faux intellectuals.It still clings to the workers for
electoral support but in the new paradigm, they are to toe the line and accept
what they are told when spoken down to.

… All the traits in Thatcher that
Thatcher-bashers claim to hate can be found in politicians of all persuasion.
But it's only Thatcher's name that is said with a sneer; who is described as
"evil"; who is said to have "poisoned Britain" and
permanently changed the British people's moral make-up through, in the words of
The Independent, "implanting the gene of greed in the British soul".
Why?

Because
Thatcher-bashing isn't really linked to anything Thatcher did. Rather, it
springs from the failures of the Thatcher-bashers, who have transformed
Thatcher into an awesomely powerful, mind-controlling villainess as a way of
explaining away their own isolation and disarray.

The ferocious
loathing leftists have for Thatcher is directly proportional to the paucity of
their influence over people.

As their
intellectual and electoral fortunes declined, and their aloofness increased, so
their fantasy of Thatcher as the omnipotent warper of the little people's minds
and destroyer of traditions intensified. They project their own failures on to
Thatcher and her soul-remoulding superpowers. The word itself,
"Thatcher", always said with disdain, has become the Left's catch-all
explanation for why it isn't taken seriously by the masses anymore.

Throughout
the 80s, as chunks of Britain's working-class voters abandoned the decrepit
Labour Party and annoyed the hell out of the bien pensant classes by being
vulgarly materialistic, it became fashionable to argue that these plebs must
have been brainwashed by that mistress of might.

Radical
leftists came up with a theory of "authoritarian populism" to
describe Thatcher's ability to win working-class support.They viewed working-class Tory voters
not as rational political beings but as cretins who had been mentally kidnapped
by the hypnotic Iron Lady.

They hated
the aspirant working classes not only because they turned their back on Labour,
but because they rejected the non-materialistic values of their betters in the
Left set. They were described as "culturally barren and mildly
brutish". …